One of the nice things about Markdown is that you can just… put HTML in there too. There is no Markdown shortcut for a
. That means you can use use
What if you want a Markdown-friendly way to represent a feedback form, or a tabbed UI, or a mortgage calculator, or something else way beyond the scope of text formatting.
For these situations, what you really want is to put a token or a placeholder in your Markdown, and have something else expand it later on into a larger, more complicated HTML construct.
What you sort of need is… Markdown for More Complicated HTML™.
Enter Custom Elements.
If you want to put React components into Markdown, you’ve got MDX, but MDX can get Very Complicated™. If you just want to use Web Components in Markdown, well, Dave really said it best.
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